Quake Would Be This Annoying In Today’s FPS World

Can you imagine a Quake game with hand-holding, trophies/achievements, tutorials and DLC? A Quake game without insane Rocket jumps, tons of enemies and tough as nails boss fights? Check out the video above, and come to the realisation that the gaming world has gone soft on us.

I still remember those Quake multiplayer days – anyone Sujoy Roy? Well, without him we wouldn’t have rocket jumping out of lava!

Whilst I’m all for advancement and the progression of everything, I have to admit that games these days are made such that any brain dead assclown would be able to pay them on pretty much any level (Demon Souls, Devil May Cry inter alia excluded obviously!).

I remember playing Tomb Raider 2 and that was tough as nails on the PC on the hard “difficulty” level – not to mention that the levels and switches and other interactive elements weren’t lit up as bright as the night sky on Diwali a la Uncharted and the pretty much any other game now. It makes it all too easy and considering by what I’m seeing, people are pretty much done with the game the day it’s released

Where’s the fun in that?

http://egamer.co.za Dean Oberholzer

How things have changed, hey?

PsiCoRe

OMW! YES! Awesome post Alessandro. This makes me want to whip out my copy of Q1 and play it again. Bring it back old school :-D I’m going to share this with EVERYONE!

Anonymous

Do It! Haha thanks man, I must say I laughed so hard at the beginning, with all the sighing while he waited for the logo screens to finish :P

http://egamer.co.za Dean Oberholzer

Yes! I was super annoyed too. FUCK

Farkyne

“When I was your age, we rocket jumped all the way to school… IN LAVA!” hahahahaha!

http://egamer.co.za/author/cavie Caveshen Rajman

Made me feel like a kid again. Which is weird because I don’t remember ever being a baby goat.

http://egamer.co.za Dean Oberholzer

That’s because you still are a baby goat, billy.

http://egamer.co.za Dean Oberholzer

OK. QuakeLive soon guys. Soon. That’s the closest we’re going to get.

Jamie Ramsamy

I used to play Action Quake during lectures (computer based lecture material mind you) & I used to wear earphones…well, one day I screamed “Just die dammit” at some random camping bastard not knowing that the entire lecture hall/LAN resonated with my hate :P needless to say I was busted for that one!

I also remember playing Quake 3 on those OLD PCs at our mech eng LAN when it first came out with OpenGL struggling even with shaders turned down to max! Looked so crappy but the battles were epic!

Skyblue

I’ll tell you what happened to the awesomeness that was once Quake… the console generation. This video serves as a lesson in what was achieved with a mouse/keyboard combo and a kick-ass game where skill reigned supreme.

Seriously though, no 10 screens of credits, no tutorials, no hints, no voice chat and yet those games were still just awesome. Ahh, I remember the days when gameplay ruled the Earth…

BTW, Quake (1) still has the best soundtrack ever in a video game, thank you Mr Reznor